Details are important when it comes to structured settlements. So is timing. Counting down, here is the top 10 list of things to remember when creating a structure – for your client or for your legal fees.Continue Reading

Special Needs Trusts (SNTs) are an excellent way to hold the assets of injured parties while preserving their needs-based public benefits such as MediCal (Medicaid) and SSI. Certain rules apply when using any type of SNT, whether individual or pooled.Continue Reading

Over the past 20 years, more than 50 percent of the structured settlements facilitated by Ringler Associates, a national structured settlements brokerage firm, were less than $50,000. Another approximately 17 percent were between $50,000 and $100,000. These figures are typical of most annuity brokerage firms.Continue Reading

Settling a case can be a cumbersome, time consuming and a frustrating experience for all parties. When the complexities of public-benefit programs such as Medicare and Medi-Cal are added to the settlement mix, it’s no wonder plaintiff attorneys seek assistance in understand¬ing the necessary legal measures required to ensure their settlements comply with the law and protects their client’s current and future interests.Continue Reading

Being creative is always an asset when it comes to liability settlements--cautiously creative that is. Such was the case with Big R Towing v. Benoit, 2011 WL 43219 (January 6, 2011, W.D.La.). Both sides took into account the future medical expenses of the alleged injured party, keeping in mind Medicare's interests according to the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, 22 U.S.C. 1395y.Continue Reading

The ASCDC's 50th Annual Seminar, March 10-11 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, will feature a panel on Medicare Set-Asides and compliance issues involving structured settlements. Joining me on the panel will be Jon Gunter, executive vice-president at MEDVAL.Continue Reading

We work with clients and attorneys in California and around the country in creating structured settlements for medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability, workers’ compensation, mass torts and construction defect cases as well as for non-physical injury cases and attorney fees–all at no cost to the client.Continue Reading